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reganross 's review for:
The Girl in the Spider's Web
by David Lagercrantz
On one hand, it is a joy to continue being able to read about Salander & Blomkvist. The author does a good job of choosing new plots that the two would get involved in while also continuing characters & plots the reader still has questions about after the original trilogy. However, Lagercrantz has a less mature writing style than Larsson & it shows. The intelligence & personality of women which was so prominent in Larsson’s work feels significantly dumbed down; very few women are not pursuing/worrying about some relationship. Additionally, there is a section in the last 3/4 of the book where Blomkvist speaks to Palmgren and Camilla’s guardian respectively & these two characters seem to know impossibly much about the early life of the sisters. It felt very much like a crutch for the writer to connect dots for characters but lost the feeling of secrecy that both Lizbeth & Camilla rely on for their daily lives.